Two Important Articles To Read

THE ENCLAVE: PART ONE
Blind Eye to Culture of Abuse
Children of a polygamist sect have been exploited, molested for years.
By David Kelly and Gary Cohn
Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2006

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — For half a century, while polygamous members of this remote enclave engaged in widespread sexual abuse and child exploitation, government authorities on all levels did little to intervene or protect generations of victims.
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THE ENCLAVE: PART TWO
Where Few Dare to Disobey
Members of a polygamist sect endure abuses, or risk losing everything.
By David Kelly and Gary Cohn
Los Angeles Times
May 13, 2006

To his followers, Warren Jeffs is a teacher and spiritual leader who channels divine revelations — the man they call their prophet.

To the FBI, Jeffs is an accused rapist and fugitive on its 10 Most Wanted list with a $100,000 bounty on his head — a man it calls armed and dangerous.

Despite the conflicting images, one thing is clear: Jeffs' four-year reign as the patriarch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or FLDS, has been the most tumultuous in at least 50 years.